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FAA says power outage forced postponement of SpaceX TRACERS launch
The Federal Aviation Administration said a regional power outage disrupted telecommunications at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, which forced postponing of the Sp...
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Iran conducted suborbital test with Qased satellite launch vehicle, report says
Iran conducted a suborbital test with the Qased satellite launch vehicle to evaluate new technologies developed by the country's space industry, semi-official Tasnim news agency re...
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Israeli research finds that when plants talk, insects listen
There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel Aviv University said on Tuesday, opening a new frontier in the study of acoustic communication ...
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Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary depart space station for return flight
NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson and four crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary departed the International Space Station early on Monday and embarked on their...
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SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk's xAI startup, WSJ reports
SpaceX has committed $2 billion to xAI as part of a $5 billion equity round, deepening the ties between tech billionaire Elon Musk's ventures as his artificial intelligence startup...
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Arizona fossils reveal an ecosystem in flux early in the age of dinosaurs
Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable l...
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Alien planet lashed by huge flares from its 'angry beast' star
Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed.
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Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes
Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing...
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Newly spotted comet is third interstellar object seen in our solar system
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object has been observed visiting our solar system.
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Ancient Egyptian man's genome reveals his society's cross-cultural ties
DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the ...
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Astronomers get picture of aftermath of a star's double detonation
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and ...
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Chile observatory captures the universe with 3,200-megapixel camera
Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos, allowing astronomers to figure out how the ...
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Rocks in Canada's Quebec province found to be the oldest on Earth
Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of...
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Zurich researchers pioneer rare earth e-waste recycling
Researchers at ETH University in Zurich have developed a new method to efficiently recover rare earth elements from electronic waste, advancing sustainable recycling and reducing m...
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With a primitive canoe, scientists replicate prehistoric seafaring
Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote places. In doing so, our ancestors surmounted geo...
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For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet
The James Webb Space Telescope, for the first time, has discovered an exoplanet.
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Killer whales use seaweed as tools to groom each other
Killer whales are known for exceptional intelligence, displaying complex social structures and sophisticated communication. New research provides fresh evidence for this, documenti...
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Warplane maker HAL wins bid to privatise India's small satellite launch rockets
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd has won the bid to privately make India's small satellite launch rockets, the country's space regulator said on Friday, the government's biggest step yet ...
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